MIC-1:1  The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite 
in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, 
which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

MIC-1:2  Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that 
therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the 
Lord from his holy temple.

MIC-1:3  For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, 
and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

MIC-1:4  And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the 
valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, [and] as the 
waters [that are] poured down a steep place.

MIC-1:5  For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for 
the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of 
Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of 
Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?

MIC-1:6  Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, 
[and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the 
stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the 
foundations thereof.

MIC-1:7  And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to 
pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, 
and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered 
[it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire 
of an harlot.

MIC-1:8  Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and 
naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as 
the owls.

MIC-1:9  For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto Judah;
 he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.

MIC-1:10  Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in 
the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

MIC-1:11  Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy 
shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the 
mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

MIC-1:12  For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good:
 but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

MIC-1:13  O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the 
swift beast: she [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter 
of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

MIC-1:14  Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: 
the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.

MIC-1:15  Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of 
Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

MIC-1:16  Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate 
children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone 
into captivity from thee.

*MIC-2:1  Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon 
their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because 
it is in the power of their hand.

MIC-2:2  And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and 
houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his 
house, even a man and his heritage.

MIC-2:3  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this 
family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your 
necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time [is] evil.

MIC-2:4  In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, 
and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be utterly 
spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he 
removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

MIC-2:5  Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord 
by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

MIC-2:6  Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they 
shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame.

MIC-2:7  O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the 
spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my 
words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

MIC-2:8  Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull 
off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as 
men averse from war.

MIC-2:9  The women of my people have ye cast out from their 
pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory 
for ever.

MIC-2:10  Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: 
because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore 
destruction.

MIC-2:11  If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, 
[saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; 
he shall even be the prophet of this people.

MIC-2:12  I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will 
surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as 
the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: 
they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.

MIC-2:13  The breaker is come up before them: they have broken 
up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: 
and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head 
of them.

*MIC-3:1  And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye 
princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know 
judgment?

MIC-3:2  Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off 
their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

MIC-3:3  Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their 
skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in 
pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

MIC-3:4  Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear 
them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they 
have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

MIC-3:5  Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make 
my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and 
he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war 
against him.

MIC-3:6  Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not 
have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not 
divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day 
shall be dark over them.

MIC-3:7  Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners 
confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] 
no answer of God.

MIC-3:8  But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, 
and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his 
transgression, and to Israel his sin.

MIC-3:9  Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, 
and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and 
pervert all equity.

MIC-3:10  They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with 
iniquity.

MIC-3:11  The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests 
thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for 
money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the 
LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

MIC-3:12  Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a 
field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the 
house as the high places of the forest.

*MIC-4:1  But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the 
mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the 
top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; 
and people shall flow unto it.

MIC-4:2  And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us 
go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God 
of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in 
his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of 
the LORD from Jerusalem.

MIC-4:3  And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong 
nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into 
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not 
lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any 
more.

MIC-4:4  But they shall sit every man under his vine and under 
his fig tree; and none shall make [them] afraid: for the mouth 
of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it].

MIC-4:5  For all people will walk every one in the name of his 
god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever 
and ever.

MIC-4:6  In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that 
halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that 
I have afflicted;

MIC-4:7  And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that 
was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over 
them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

MIC-4:8  And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the 
daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first 
dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

MIC-4:9  Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is there] no king in 
thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a 
woman in travail.

MIC-4:10  Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of 
Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out 
of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt 
go [even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the 
LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

MIC-4:11  Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that 
say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

MIC-4:12  But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither 
understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the 
sheaves into the floor.

MIC-4:13  Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make 
thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt 
beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain 
unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole 
earth.

*MIC-5:1  Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he 
hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel 
with a rod upon the cheek.

MIC-5:2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little 
among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come 
forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings 
forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.

MIC-5:3  Therefore will he give them up, until the time [that] 
she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his 
brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

MIC-5:4  And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD,
 in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall 
abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

MIC-5:5  And this [man] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian 
shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces,
 then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight 
principal men.

MIC-5:6  And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,
 and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he 
deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, 
and when he treadeth within our borders.

MIC-5:7  And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many 
people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, 
that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

MIC-5:8  And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in 
the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the 
forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go 
through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can 
deliver.

MIC-5:9  Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, 
and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

MIC-5:10  And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, 
that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I 
will destroy thy chariots:

MIC-5:11  And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw 
down all thy strong holds:

MIC-5:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and 
thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:

MIC-5:13  Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy 
standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more 
worship the work of thine hands.

MIC-5:14  And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of 
thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

MIC-5:15  And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon 
the heathen, such as they have not heard.

*MIC-6:1  Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou 
before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

MIC-6:2  Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye 
strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy 
with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

MIC-6:3  O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein 
have I wearied thee? testify against me.

MIC-6:4  For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and 
redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before 
thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

MIC-6:5  O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab 
consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from 
Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the 
LORD.

MIC-6:6  Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow 
myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt 
offerings, with calves of a year old?

MIC-6:7  Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] 
with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn 
[for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my 
soul?

MIC-6:8  He hath showed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what 
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love 
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

MIC-6:9  The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and [the man of] 
wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath 
appointed it.

MIC-6:10  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house 
of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?

MIC-6:11  Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, 
and with the bag of deceitful weights?

MIC-6:12  For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the 
inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] 
deceitful in their mouth.

MIC-6:13  Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee,
 in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

MIC-6:14  Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting 
down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, 
but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I 
give up to the sword.

MIC-6:15  Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt 
tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and 
sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

MIC-6:16  For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works 
of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I 
should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an 
hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

*MIC-7:1  Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the 
summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] 
no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

MIC-7:2  The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there 
is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they 
hunt every man his brother with a net.

MIC-7:3  That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the 
prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the 
great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it 
up.

MIC-7:4  The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is 
sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy 
visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

MIC-7:5  Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a 
guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy 
bosom.

MIC-7:6  For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter 
riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her 
mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.

MIC-7:7  Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for 
the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

MIC-7:8  Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I 
shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light 
unto me.

MIC-7:9  I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have 
sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute 
judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I 
shall behold his righteousness.

MIC-7:10  Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and 
shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy 
God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down 
as the mire of the streets.

MIC-7:11  [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that 
day shall the decree be far removed.

MIC-7:12  [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from 
Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress 
even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to 
mountain.

MIC-7:13  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of 
them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

MIC-7:14  Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine 
heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of 
Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of 
old.

MIC-7:15  According to the days of thy coming out of the land of 
Egypt will I show unto him marvellous [things].

MIC-7:16  The nations shall see and be confounded at all their 
might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their 
ears shall be deaf.

MIC-7:17  They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall 
move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be 
afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

MIC-7:18  Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity,
 and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his 
heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he 
delighteth [in] mercy.

MIC-7:19  He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; 
he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins 
into the depths of the sea.

MIC-7:20  Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy 
to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days 
of old.



 

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